[Article] All The Little People

[Dr. Sylvan]

All The Little People

In the past I've analyzed the largest tournaments that Type One has to offer in order to determine the state of the metagame. However, not all of us live near these huge affairs, of which there are just a handful each month around the world. To most, Type One tournaments are twenty to forty people battling for a Mox at indeterminate intervals, or even smaller weekend gatherings. Not everyone has Power cards, proxy policies vary (most aren't sanctioned events for this reason), and people will not be playing the absolute best decks (ah, Psychatog, how I hate thee so...).

Edit: Someone on the SCG forums has informed me that the Madrid tournament from January was in fact a 190-player dose of hugeness, and not a local event. All the more emphasis placed on accurate, complete reporting of events so I don't have to correct myself! :)

[Kowal]

I love how little of that stuff applies when you live as close to Hadley as I do.

[Dr. Sylvan]

Get the results up to morphling.de and you can skew the results if I do this topic again. Better yet, have 50+ people in your tournament! :)

I <3 data from North America - there's never enough of it compared to the Europeans' organized results-posting.

[Kowal]

Good call.  I should make Hadley do deck reg.

[Smmenen]

Good Stuff Herr Doctor.  What you do is something we have been missing for a while.  I suggest that you try and collate top 8 data in that has not been posted on morphling.de (for instance, tournaments with top8s reported on the drain).

Steve

[Dr. Sylvan]

Good Stuff Herr Doctor.  What you do is something we have been missing for a while.

Thanks. My roommate looks at me weird when I spend several hours straight cutting-and-pasting decklists to accumulate the month's results, but somehow it's fun for me. :)

I suggest that you try and collate top 8 data in that has not been posted on morphling.de (for instance, tournaments with top8s reported on the drain).

I notice this every time, trust me. The easy access to information at morphling is so perfect, and the North American events are usually too small (though not for this article). The February article includes the GameMasters Ltd. tournament from 2004-02-15 that Avi (TheFram) linked me to, so that I could have a fifth tournament (I was already done with the analysis when Milan and Copenhagen became available).

I don't keep a very close eye on the Tournament Forum combing for results; I'd have to read near-everything to find the results, as they are sometimes at the end of the threads. So I tend not to know some things have happened unless it goes to morphling or has been chattered about extensively. There's also usually no decklists when I've looked. :(

I'm not sure how to best make sure I see results, but I'd recommend to anyone who posts them to PM me a link. I'd much rather get redundant information than miss things.

[Zherbus]

I like this alot, Dr Sylvan. Especially since all those Hadley tournaments, RI tournaments, and Gamemaster tournaments dictate the trends for bigger events like the Waterbury open and AndyStok's dual lotus tournament.

[Magi]

Love the number breakdown.

Go Suicide Black!

Great article.